Awards

Sue has received a number of accolades for her work.

• NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2018
• Longlisted for the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize 2018 – “The Swim“
• Two poems commended in the 2018 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine – “Rx” and “As it is on Earth”.
• The Yield shortlisted for 2018 Ockham NZ Book Award for Poetry
• Strip longlisted for 2017 Ockham NZ Book Award for Fiction
• Shortlisted 2017 Landfall Essay Competition – “A Box of Bones”
• Winner Otago Regional Award in 2016 National Flash Fiction competition – “Calligraphy”
• Commended 2016 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine – “Admission”
• Winner 2015 Takahē Poetry Competition – “Calling”
• Runner-up 2015 Gwen Harwood Prize (Australia) – “Smeuse”
• Longlisted in 2015 University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s Prize – “The Yield”
• Winner 2015 Caselberg Trust International Poetry prize – “Luthier”
• Shared second prize in 2013 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine – “Wild”
• Winner 2013 Victorian Cancer Council Arts Award for poetry –“Daffodils”
• Awarded the 2012 NZ Society of Authors Mid-Career Writers Grant.
• Winner 2011 New Zealand Poetry Society international poetry competition – “Ice Diver”
• Shortlisted for 2011 Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing – “Icy Noctiluca”
• Winner 2010 Takahe international poetry competition – “Haunted”
• Runner-up in the 2009 and 2010 BNZ Katherine Mansfield short story competitions 
• 2008 Robert Burns Fellow, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
• Winner in 2008 NZ Book Month ‘Six Pack Three’ competition – “Virtuoso”  (short story)
• Finalist in 2008 Takahe and 2008 Sunday Star Times short story competitions.
• Winner 2007 Inverawe (Tasmania, Australia) poetry competition –“Temporal”
• First prize in both fiction  and poetry sections of the 2006 Aoraki Literary Festival competition – “Weight” (Fiction Prize) and “Breakfast with Raymond Carver” (Poetry Prize)